Turner prize-winning artist Susan Philipsz simultaneously hums the anthems from Grenada, Ethiopia, Russia, Bahrain, USA, GB, Nigeria and Jamaica. Philipsz says of her Olympic artwork: 'I picked out different countries at random and laid down their national anthems on eight tracks in the recording studio. I thought if all the countries can run alongside each other we can have all the anthems running alongside each other too'

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Thursday 9 August 2012 04.44 EDT
First published on Thursday 9 August 2012 04.44 EDT

For the last in our series of exclusive artworks responding to the Games, photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, who started out shooting London street life, steps into the ring to celebrate the end of the Games – by capturing one of the disliked dedicated traffic lanes on the way to the Olympic park

As part of our series in which artists celebrate the Games, Michael Landy, one of the original Young British Artists, reflects on the domestic mishap with his hungry terrier that stopped him from witnessing Team GB gold at the boxing